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  2. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic devices. Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. [1] They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.

  3. Virginia Woolf - Wikipedia

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    Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ wʊlf /; [2] née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London.

  4. The Lucy poems - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known portrait of Wordsworth, painted in the year he wrote the first drafts of "The Lucy poems" [1] The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801. All but one were first published during 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, a ...

  5. Philomela - Wikipedia

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    Philomela. Philomela (/ ˌfɪləˈmiːlə /) or Philomel (/ ˈfɪləˌmɛl /; Greek: Φιλομήλη, Philomēlē; Φιλομήλα Philomḗla) is a minor figure in Greek mythology who is frequently invoked as a direct and figurative symbol in literary and artistic works in the Western canon.

  6. Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter - Wikipedia

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    Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter. " Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter " is an elegy by John Crowe Ransom published in 1924. [1] It was first collected in his 1924 anthology Chills and Fever, [2] and is now considered his most-anthologized work. [3] The five stanza poem reflects on the impact that unexpected death has on life by describing ...

  7. Allegory - Wikipedia

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    As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance. Authors have used allegory throughout history in all forms of art to illustrate or convey complex ideas and concepts in ways that are ...

  8. W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia

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    W. B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats[a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.

  9. Pearl (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Pearl (Middle English: Perle) is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and is highly—though not consistently—alliterative; there is, among other stylistic features, a complex ...